Life in the Fat Lane

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Summary: For Young Adults this is as good as it gets!
Review: Life in the Fat lane Captures you into the "Little miss perfect Life" of Lara Ardeches from the very start. But as you slowly absorb the negatives of her life, you find out that something even more terrible has happened! Lara, the 18 year old weighing a mear 120 pounds, now has grown enormosly large to a ? Read the book and find out the terrible life Lara is not ready to overcome. Get it today! :)

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Summary: One of the best books for teens ever!
Review: In my opinion, this book will be right up there with To Kill a Mockingbird and The Outsiders as some of the best books for teens. This author knows more about what it is like to really be a teen than anyone I ever read. I have read this book threee times already, and my mom has read it too. We have spent hours talking about it. And niether of us is fat! I could not put this book down, and I don't think anyone else could, either. The story of a perfect girl gaining 100 pounds in one school year is brilliant. Read it!

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Summary: great book
Review: Perfect. Lara Ardeche was perfect. Absolutely perfect. Her family was perfect, her friends were perfect, her boyfriend was perfect, her life was perfect, and she was perfect. She was, and it was, but not anymore.
Lara Ardeche was a pageant queen and a future Miss America. She was a blonde- haired, blue-eyed beauty weighing only 118 pounds at 5'7". She was nice, sweet, and soft-spoken. She was the girl who pitied the less fortunate ones. She was the one who thought and said aloud "People can be so cruel, and you know, you've got such a pretty face." She thought she wanted to help. Little did she know it was just pity. That's all she was offering. I thought all this made this book wonderful. It was very realistic. People are exactly like that. I was able to relate to this book. Not because I am extremely perfect or extremely obese, but because that is reality. People are extremely obese, and the extremely perfect ones pity them. That's life.
I really like how the main characters life went from great to terrible. It showed the transition from one way of life to another. It showed how something can just completely turn upside-down. It showed how shallow girls can be. Lara had two best friends that completely ditched her when she got fat. It showed how shallow boys can be. She had a great boyfriend how said he'd love her if she got fat, but he didn't.
I loved the ending. It took an unexpected turn. Until the very end she kept gaining wait and kept thinking the way she did before. By the end, she was thinking differently and with a different heart. At the very end she was losing a little weight. It was unexpected. It was surprising that Lara finally realized she needed to change how she thought she was losing weight. This is one of the best books I have read. Life in the Fat Lane was extremely good, and I wouldn't mind reading it again.


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Summary: Best book ever!
Review: I absolutely loved this book- I thought it was just great and it had so many different elements- love, sadness, betrayal, weight issues, everything a good book should have! I loved this book and I think everyone should read it.

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Summary: A great book for teen girls!
Review: I think that there are two types of books. One is a book that has a character that you like a lot, and you keep liking her through the book as she learns something and changes. The other is type of book that has a character that you do not particularly like, and then you get to like her through the book as she changes. This book is definitely one of the second kind, and that is what makes it so great. The beautiful girl starts out beautiful, and then all kinds of bad things happen to her. At least she thinks that they are bad as she gains so much weight, but if you keep reading you can see that what she thinks is bad is actually good and helps her become her own person. I like that the thing that makes her get fat is not real, because there are so many things in life that can make you fat that are real. The writer Ms. Bennett must really know teens, because everyone in this book sounds like they go to my high school! They talk like teens really talk, and act like teens really act. As for me, I'm never going to make fun of anyone fat ever again.

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Summary: Not the best
Review: As a 17 year old teenage girl, I am definatly NOT into classic novels or big thick books about political stuff. I want the novels about teenagers with problems relating to the ones teenagers have these days. That is why I was very attracted to this novel. The title spoke for itself --life as a fat teenager. When I read teh book I was VERY VERY disappointed. It is not what I expected it to be, the main character of this novel started out as a skinny beautiful girl. Then she got some disease and started to gain weight like crazy. THAT part of teh novel where they reveal WHY she was gaining weight was the WORST part of teh novel. SO UNREALISTIC! There is no such disease as the one mentioned in teh book, VERY disappointing. The social life of the main character is very realistic however -- she obviously became less known and she had to move because everyone thought she was a freak for being so overweight. Overall...not the best but it was alright.

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Summary: From skinny to...not skinny
Review: The woman who wrote this book obviously doesn't understand a thing about teenage girls. I picked this up because I thought it would be an honest teen novel about a girl's struggle with wieght, instead I got a shallow "beauty queen" going on about how she couldn't understand why fat girls just don't try. Who really wants to read about a main character you don't even care about??
It makes me really sad that books like THIS can get published. The author may have done tons of research into eating disorders and teen obesity, but she obviously did NO research on her target audience: the teenage girl. Lady, read some teen novels before you attempt to write in a genre you know nothing about!!

I was unable to get through the whole book, but I can say that predinsone does not have really devestating effects on your body. You retain water, which makes you a bit chubby (among other effects.) I've been off and on predinsone all my life, and I know this.

I would give this book ZERO stars if possible.

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Summary: offensive
Review: This book is a piece of crap. Seriously.
This girl, who was a winner at beauty contests, suddenly starts getting fat. And the bad thing is, because she is such a shallow person, you sort of WANT bad things to happen to her!
SOme examples of the offensiveness:
"The new me headed for the fat ladies' store: Lane Bryant....never, ever in a million years did I think I would be caught dead in that store, shopping for myself."
"...I used to feel so superior because you had fat thighs and big hips..."
"Not that I was even remotely attracted to him, anyway. I mean, he was just so....so fat."
"If she hadn't been so fat, she would have been pretty...."
"How pathetic. We had nothing in common. She probably ate all the time like Perry Jameson and deserved her fatness..."
"What I meant was obvious. He was gorgeous. She was huge. I really didn't need to say it out loud."
"terrific. I was the pinup for fat guys and blind guys."
I forced myself to read the whole thing, but I'm tossing it in the garbage now, so that no one else has to read this tripe.

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Summary: Life in the FAT Lane -- AMAZING NOVEL !!!
Review: As a teenager I love reading books that I can relate to, and Life in the Fat Lane is the best, addicting, funny, amazing, realistic, favorite book I have read in my fourteen years of life. In a weird way I can relate to the book, how the character, Lara, thinks, and the problems that surround her. How life is not perfect, and everybody has issues that you can overcome. I could not stop reading this book, I actually got involved with the book and understood every single thing about it. I liked how it read in the novel how a doctor felt more superior to its patient because he had gotten AIDS from a needle and not transmitted sexually, and how should Lara not feel superior to other fat people because she had a disease and that was her excuse. When I finished the book, I just felt like reading more, reading actually became more interesting for me, I discovered I liked reading books that I could relate to, novels that include real life problems. This is the best novel I have ever read! I really look foward into reading more novels from Cherie Bennett.